APD didn't alert public of prior abduction

The family and friends of a 6-year-old girl are crying foul after Albuquerque police didn't alert the community after the girl was allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted last week.

They said a police warning would have caused the area to be on lookout for a child predator, and that might have prevented this week's abduction of a 4-year-old girl. The abduction happened on the very same block of the very same apartment complex near 12th Street and Indian School.

"Who knows what he could've done to these kids," said the first victim's mother. "What if no one ever saw their kids again?"

Late Thursday, Albuquerque police told Target 7 they hadn't alerted the media or the public of last week's incident because they didn't have enough concrete evidence yet and no eyewitnesses besides the victim herself.

The little girls are actually friends with each other.

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